Rail-joint.



' tion to be clamped upon the rail v UNITED ()FIiIGE.

ATLFRED F, COYNE AND WILLIAM BAR-NHART, 0F MENABD, ILLINOIS.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent- Patented Jan. 3, 1911-.

Application filed February 1, 1910. Serial No. 541,235.

a all whom 'it may concern:

Be'it knownthat we, ALFRED C-ornn and WILLIAM- BAR'NHART, citizens of the United States, residing ht Menard, in the county of Randolph and haveinvented certain new and useful Im-j IOVQEZ'i -kllfiS in Rail-Joints, of which the fol- .owing is a s ecifica'tion. l

This-invention has relation to certain new l and usclful improvements in rail joint-s.

'Ihe-.pri-mary object of our invention is l to provide a,,eombined rail chair and fish plate. r

"Anothersobjeetis to provide arail joint arrangedto receive the meeting ends of two rails, the joint including two fish plate forming members held in yielding spaced relaend to firmly engage the rails'to prevent any lateral or vertical movement of the rail ends within the joints.

A most important object of the invention is to provide a chair member having a rail engaging" plate at one side adapted to form a tread-bridge atthe junction of engaged rails, whereby wheels will be prevented from pounding and distorting the abutting rail ends. j I

\Vith the above and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of 'parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and par-, ticularly pointed out in the appended claim,

it being understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claim withthe spirit of the inven- In the drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the severalviews, Figure 1 shows an end view of a rail provided with. our improved rail jjoint. Fig. 2 shows a to view. Fig. 3shows a transverse sectionai view through one of the connecting bolts.

As is well known by all those skilled in the art to which this invention relates, the pounding of the car wheels, as they pass over the meeting ends or rail joints, is extion rail chair, fish State of Illinois, l

been firmly pressed tremely objectionable as it causes a shock and jar ruinous to both the rail bed and rollin stock. In our invention we overcome the o jection to the rail joint as usually constructed, in that we employ a combinaplate and bridge niade of a single piece. t

In the drawings the numeral 5 designates the base, 6 the web and 7 the head or trend of a'railway rail. of conventional construction, In providing a-secure holding means for the meeting ends of the rails, we employ a preferably steel member including the concavo-convex bottom 10, to provide a middle lengthwise running rail sup orting surface 12, upon which. the base 5 0- they rail rests.

Curvmg from each side. of this concavo are the convergibly held convex bottom top;fla'nges 13 and 14 of increasing thickness, these flanges being arranged to firmly bind upon the edges3 and 4 of the rail base 5.

Extending upwardly from the to flange 13 is the fish plate forming' s'e tion 1 having the gain or groove 16 min width and depth to receive the head 2 of an ordinary bolt 1, In order to insurea firm contact of the f lat:- forming section 15 with the web 6, o the rail, we provide the, sameupon-the inner face with the grooves 18 and 19 running parallel with the gain 16. The upper and lower shoulders 18 and 19 respectiveiy, are thus formed and an intermediate shoulder a, which is offset. outwardly from the, lane of the inner surfaces of the shoulders 18 and 19" a distance ot'ahout one eighth of an inch. This shoulder is located directly inward of the groove tacts with the central portion of the web after the upper, and lower shoulders have 20 of readily understood.- The upper edge this fish plate forming section is arranged to lie in firm en agement with the under surface of the rail'head while the line 22 forming the edges 'of this fish plate section is of a length to firmly engage the upper rail base 5, as disclosed in Extending from the top flange 14 is the fish plate and bridge forming section 25, which has its inner face gained to provide the two extending contact flanges 26 and 27 arranged to be brought into firm engagement with the upper and lower portions of the rail web 6. The upper edge of this fish 10, and con- 9'0 thereagainst, as will be late forming svction 2|) is rovided with I the thickened ofiuet tread-hm ge portion 30 arranged to enga e against head 7 and preseiting the seaport-mg surthe side ofthe 25 are slightly larger than the b within the rail Web 6 so that these securing 'bolts 1 may be readily introduced previous to the 0 so.

- web of the rail. I I In use,the device which is approximately a I joints as slipped .upon the end of a rail and 'closed in the top view the ends of the por- 't-ion 3O arero'unded as shown at 35, so that in 31, and shoulder 36, upon the outer side I of? the plate, the securing nut 32 upon the 1 seeming bolts -1 being arran ed to be hooded and shielded by, the shoul er 36. As disi in the replacing of a car which has run of outward and i prevented from shearing off of the railsthe wheel flanges will be fended I 'the securing nuts w I In Fig. 1 weihaveishown one of our rail I disclosing the normal position of the fish gjoints being readily slipped upon or oif the inovin these combined fish The section is 'ity of bolta plate-forming sections 15 and 25. niembers-are normally held in a divergent slipped outwardly to dispose the junction of 1 'are then engaged through the inner These i ylelding'spaced relation pe'rmitting'the rail rail ends in the operation of securing or replate and rail chair orming joints. I

provided with a pluralertures 40, while the section 25 is provide withthe bolt receiving'aperture 41,-within which the securing bolts are removably held. The openin s 40 and 41 it opening 42' eration of clamping the divergently held fis 1 plate forming sections against the sleeve, is slipped over the end of one of the rails, and the abutting rail then disposed to register therewith after which the sleeve is brought closely against the outer side of the I head, the upper surface 31 bein in a co1n-- mon plane with the upper jsur ace of the head 7 and adapted to as theypass the joint. v v 7 A rail -'oint constructed according to our invention is simple and-inexpensive in consuppiort car" wheels structionand both durable and eflicient-in operation, and the adjustment of a member upon the'rail ends maybe made with ease, accuracy and despattah;

It will be-noted that the bridge portion 25 i is thickened to a considerably greaterextent than the opposite 'side of;the chair, so

that it will have a maximum. strength for the Having thus described our said invention, what isclaimed is:

A rail joint comprising a single member, the body portion of said member being adapted to incase the base portions of the support of rolling stock passing thereover.

meeting ends of the rails saidbod'y portion being bent to contact with the base portions, and with said base portions at a point directly below the web of the rails, flanges formed integral with said body portion, one of said flanges having its ed e poredges of said tion flush with the tread of -the rail, said flange being provided with a squared extension, a plurality of projectionsv formed upon said flanges, two of said projections being-adapted to Contact with the webat points adjacent the base, and two of said projections being adapted to contact with said web at points-adjacent the tread, a bolt pass'in through said web' and said flan es, a

one 0t said flanges being provided wit a centrally depressed portion for engaging said web and protecting the head of said Lbolt, a nut carried by said bolt, said nut beneath the squared extension lying directly formed on one of the flanges H In testimonywhereof we afiix tures, in presence of two-witnesses.

ALFRED F. ooYNEi" WILLIAM BARNHART," Witnesses y 'E. A. RHEA,

J. A. GonsUoH.

our signa- 

